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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. It would be great if we could fill the shapes that we create with more unique fills. Not only will this make the process more creative but it would also make our visuals more understandable.

    17 votes

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  2. I would love for the highlighter tool to have the option of having a straight end instead of a rounded end. Additionally, I wish there was an option to draw with dashed or dotted lines instead of having to make a solid line and then erase to get dashes

    27 votes

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  3. I would like to have more than just three slots for pen thickness. This suggestion is even more relevant after releasing dotted a dashed line feature.

    4 votes

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  4. Renently, notability can draw a curve line.

    Need to improve pen tool to draw a curve line - also arrow line

    As a math teacher and 5-year goodnote user, need to draw a cartesian coordinate plane, or quadratic&cubic&quartic function.

    Please make four-dotted line -like vectornator or Illustrator- to draw that curve! Before I change to Notability!

    25 votes

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  5. For teaching (math, biology), it would be great to improve the math geometry mode like this:

    line types: dotted, dashed, solid for graphs etc.

    building an circle / rectangle etc. by fixing the center / edges.
    (radius for example) and enable to draw curved lines in geometry mode.
    or at least just like notability put the edges of an rectangle in the right position

    may be an interface to geogebra.

    67 votes

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  6. I would have Intelligent Inserting Options:
    - Inserting something you copied from above I wish to be able to align the Thing I copied from above with those things. To be able to achieve that I would show up a dotted line downward or if I insert it right to the copied one to have a dotted light horizontally to align all the things. Optional the dotted line is "magnetic" so it pull the thing you want to insert to the dotted reference line, but if you pull it away the reference line disappears

    • when you insert something and want…

    2 votes

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  7. Now that we got dashed and dotted lines, I think it would be a great improvement to add the option of an arrowed line, just ending the line you're making with an arrow, I find that this would upgrade the note taking experiencie and a lot of people would find it very useful

    16 votes

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  8. Currently, changing the template only changes it for a single page, would be great if we could remove the template for all pages at once after finishing the notes.

    We may need a ruled, squared or dotted page while writing notes but while reading/sharing we would prefer it on a blank background.

    7 votes

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  9. I use this app mainly for calc. I am a college student working on my masters in electrical engineering. I would love to see charts, graphs and diagram formats to add to my page, much like how it works on pages and word. also I'd love to see dotted lines, "fill in" shading, different pen affects etc. I love the app, I can;t wait to see what else you guys add to it. Big fan

    99 votes

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  10. It would be great to have a feature where double-tapping on the pen thickness icon lets users seamlessly toggle between line styles, such as solid, dashed and dotted. Instead of having to open the context menu.

    3 votes

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  11. I would find it very helpful if there were several options for the background of the index cards – lined, squared, dotted.

    1 vote

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  12. 9 votes

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  13. I frequently go between black and yellow paper templates, depending on class and revisions.

    Rather than having to manually switch the three colors and pen sizes with each template, what if we could assign a preset for a template.

    Ex: each time I open my black squared template, I'd have white/pink/blue colors set at .3, .5, and 1 but if I switch/insert my yellow dotted template, those presets would switch to black/yellow/blue (etc etc).

    20 votes

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  14. Goodnotes autoformats email addresses to links whether I want it to or not, and it displays links with dotted underlines. When I export a file to an image, it's not going to preserve the link (it's an image) but the ugly dotted underline is still there. Going through the links one by one and declaring them to be non-links is extremely tedious. Please, return to the clean default text formatting when exporting!

    1 vote

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  15. There should be an option to draw shapes with rounded corners added to the new stroke settings similar to the ability to draw dashed and dotted lines and arrows heads. This idea was posted 2 other times back in 2020 but has not been addressed or updated.

    3 votes

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  16. This update would allow us to customize templates such as grid size and size ( for example make the dots on dotted paper larger). I think it would be a great and useful addition

    1 vote

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  17. Have a second shape tool, or maybe an option in the current one, that works like the Microsoft word shape tool. Choose a shape from a predefined, yet extensive, list. Be able to choose outline and fill color (including clear), and maybe even opacity. Once it's placed on the page allow scalability of the whole shape, rotations, and even adjusting points on the shape to make warped shapes. Included here should be arrows, a line, and a dotted line.

    10 votes

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  18. I would like to respectfully suggest that the cursor icon displayed while hovering be changed from the current dotted shape to a pencil icon.
    I use Goodnotes while giving online lectures, and I find the current dotted cursor neither aesthetically pleasing nor easy to see. As a result, it can be difficult to clearly track the pen position while writing. I believe that changing the cursor to a pencil-shaped icon would greatly improve both visibility and the overall user experience.
    Thank you for your time and consideration.

    1 vote

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  19. When we draw something or write something I believe we should be able to go back and alter not just the color but the thickness of the stroke, change the line used (straight line, dashed line, dotted line etc).

    1 vote

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  20. I use Goodnotes every day, and here are my suggestions:

    1. PENCIL TOOL for a more organic feeling while writing.
    2. FLOATING TOOLBAR or at least a left side option for the tools.
    3. RULER TOOL for a more organic and intuitive workflow.
    4. FILL TOOL so I can fill my drawings and shapes.
    5. BOOK STYLE with two pages per view in landscape mode.
    6. LINES OR DOTTED GRID (not a dotted paper, but a visualization mode)
    7. PEN SIZE bigger to make fill areas easier while drawing
    8. CREATE HYPERLINK on certain words/shapes to other pages or websites.
    9. AUTO DESELECT for Lasso Tool
    10. VOICE NOTE
    1 vote

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    Thanks a lot for the suggestions. All of these have already been suggested to the forum by other people. It would be really helpful for us if you could add your votes/comments to existing ideas. If they don’t yet exist, please submit one idea for each suggestion, as other people can vote on it. The number of people supporting a specific idea is an important factor that we use to decide what to build.
    Thanks a lot for your submission.

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